134 URTICACE. [ DESREGEASIA. 
moncecious or dicecious, in dense globose panicled spicate or 
sessile clusters, bracts of male clusters scarious. MALE flowers: 
Perianth usually 4 (rarely 3 or 5)-partite, lobes valvate. Stamens . 
4, rarely 3 or 5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode glabrous or woolly 
at the base. Frm. flowers: Perianth ovoid or obovoid, with a 
contracted and minutely toothed mouth, succulent in fruit. Ovary 
straight, included ; stigma sessile, pennicillate ; ovule erect. Fruit 
an achene, at first adnate to the fleshy perianth. Seed with mem- 
branous testa, albumen copious or scanty. cotyledons short and 
broad.—-Species 5, in Trop. Asia and Africa. 
Flower-heads in 2-chotomous cymes; male 
sepals exceeding the bracteoles ; leaves clothed 
beneath with ash-coloured tomentum . . Ll. Dz. velutina. 
Flower-heads sessile or subsessile; male sepals Ff 
shorter than the bracteoles; leaves clothed Pat 
beneath with snow-white tomentum . . 2. D. hypoleuca. 
1, D. velutina Gaud. in Bot. Voy. Bonitet. 90; F. B. I. V, 590; 
Watt BE. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 160; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 
383 ; Camble Man. 660; Cooke Fl.. Bomb. vi, 640; Brandis Ind. 
Trees 618. D. longifolia, Wedd. ; Brandis For. Fl. 405.—Vern. 
Tushiari, siaru (Dehra Dun). 
A tall erect shrub or small tree; bark thin, brown, rough; branches 
and petioles pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 2-7 in. long, linear 
or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, upper surface rugose, 
pubecent or scabrid and dark-green, veins prominently reticulate ; 
lower surface ashy-tomentose; base rounded or acute, 3-nerved 
and with 2-3 pairs from the mid rib above; petioles }-1} in. ; stipules 
scarious, 2-fid. Flowers in compact heads, arranged in lateral 2- 
chotomous cymes. Mate FLOWERS: Sepals 4, exceeding the brac- 
teoles. Stamens 4. Frm. FLowers: Perianth tubular, with a 
small 4-toothed mouth. Fruiting clusters 4 in. in diam., consisting 
of an aggregation of fleshy perianths and their contained achenes. 
Dehra Dun and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan tracts. Flowers 
during July and Aug. and the fruit ripens during the cold seasons 
DistTRIB..: Sub-trop. Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. from Garhwal to Sikkim, 
also in Assam, and on the Khasia Hills; ard from Konkan to S. 
India and Ceylon, extending to Java. The strong fibre yielded by 
the stems is used for ropes and bow-strings. The orange-coloured 
ripe fruit resembles a small raspberry and is eaten. “y 4 = ge 
